(updated on Jan 30, 2016)
ALLIED TRANSLATOR AND INTERPRETER SECTION (ATIS) Research Report on this blog summarizes on amenities for the Japanese armed forces during World War II. The chapter on brothels contains excerpt from ATIS’s previous interrogation reports, bulletins, etc.
ALLIED TRANSLATOR AND INTERPRETER SECTION (ATIS) Research Report on this blog summarizes on amenities for the Japanese armed forces during World War II. The chapter on brothels contains excerpt from ATIS’s previous interrogation reports, bulletins, etc.
This blog contains the transcripts of the cover page, contents and brothel section of the
ATIS report. The copy of the ATIS report is available at the National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA), but is easily downloaded at Asian Woman’sFund (AWF) that was established by Japanese government. The download file from AWF is large containing ~300 pages, but copies
corresponding to the ATIS report are available in a small file at this link on page 1 ~ 9.
SUMMARY of the report:
* IANSHO, a word used in the report, means brothels.
* Japanese military personnel paid to receive the sexual services
* The price differed depending on the military ranking, ranged from 2 JPN yen to 5 JPN yen.
* Japanese military personnel paid to receive the sexual services
* The price differed depending on the military ranking, ranged from 2 JPN yen to 5 JPN yen.
* How expensive? The lowest ranked soldier got paid
6 ~ 9 JPN yen for compensation a month. So, the price per service was 15% ~ 25% of their monthly income.
* Comfort Women were Japanese, Korean,
Chinese, and the native women,
* Brothels were run by private parties, NOT
by Japanese armed forces
* Comfort Women were subject to medical examination
once a week for the
health of Comfort Women and for preventing venereal disease from spreading to soldiers.
Here are the transcripts.
ALLIED TRANSLATOR AND INTERPRETER SECTION
SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AREA
RESEARCH REPORT
SUBJECT: AMENITIES
IN THE JAPANESE－ARMED FORCES I.G. No. 6310,
DATE OF ISSUE: February 16, 1945, No. 120
SUMMARY:
1. This report covers information available
at ATIS on amenities furnished by the Japanese to their armed forces.
2. There has been no attempt to establish the
existence of rules regarding the availability for purchase or gratuitous issue
of canteen stores, since there is a great variation, depending upon the type of
troops and the area, in the handling of amenities.
3. Further information has been given as to
the availability to the troops of such amusements as shows, movies, geisha
entertainment, and brothels.
4. References are quoted, regarding the
amount of war news passed on to troops by field newspapers, bulletins, and
radios.
SRE/CHR/IR/ER/14
Distribution H
SIDNEY. F.MASHRIR
COLONEL.S.C.,
CO ORDINATOR
SOURCES, Captured
Documents,
Statements of Prisoner of War
CONTENTS
Section I. CANTEEN STORES.................................1
1.
General 1
2. Post
Exchange and Ship Stores ........1
a. Army ................................................1
b. Navy ................................................2
3.
Gratuitous Issue .................................2
a. Officers ............................................2
b. Enlisted Men ...................................3
4.
Comfort Bags .....................................3
a. Army ................................................3
b. Formosans and Civilians .................4
II. AMUSEMENTS
5.
General ...............................................5
6.
Athletics ..............................................5
7. Movies ............................................... 6
8. Geisha
and Entertainment Troupes.....7
a. Homeland ........................................7
b. PALAU .............................................7
c. South West PACIFIC Areas .............7
9.
Brothels ...............................................8
a. BURMA ..................................................8
b. SUMATRA .......................................8
c. South West PACIFIC Area ..............9
b. SUMATRA .......................................8
c. South West PACIFIC Area ..............9
10. Leave ....................... .......................9
III. NEWS
11.
General .............................................11
12.
Newspapers ......................................11
a. Field News Sheets ..........................11
b. Bulletins ..........................................12
c. Announced News ............................12
d. No News ........................................12
13.
Radios . ..........................................12
a. No Radios Issued ...........................12
b. Officers Only ...................................13
c. Personnel Having Radios ...............14
IV. MAIL
14.
General ...........................................15
15. Army ................................................15
16. Navy ................................................16
17.
Civilians ...........................................17
V. CONCLUSIONS ....................................18
9. Brothels
Prisoner of War KUMAGAE, Shigeshiaa (JA 145077),
First Class Private, member of 41 Infantry Regiment, captured CONA, 10 December
1942, stated:
“Whenever troops were stationed in a locality in numbers, brothels were immediately established by both the Army and Navy. Korean women and Chinese women were usually employed but occasionally suitable native women would be enrolled. Profits go to the services.”
“Whenever troops were stationed in a locality in numbers, brothels were immediately established by both the Army and Navy. Korean women and Chinese women were usually employed but occasionally suitable native women would be enrolled. Profits go to the services.”
(ATIS Interrogation Report, Serial No 55,
page 7)
a. BURMA
(1) Prisoner of War MITSUI, Junchoku, Superior Private, member of the
112 Infantry Regiment, captured LETWEDET,
10 February 1944. Although he unreadable
maintains that he had never entered an IANSHO he seems well-informed about
their organization, and give the following information.
“Each division had five or six IANSHO attached. Korean women as
well as Japanese women were to be found in them. The charges for
an hour’s entertainment were; officers 5 yen, noncommissioned officers 4 yen,
and privates 3 yen. The use of preventatives was compulsory and the women were
medically examined periodically.”
(Source available on request)
(2) Prisoner of War TOMITA, Tomoaki, First Class Private, member of 112
Infantry Regiment, captured SINZWEYA, 12 February 1944, stated;
“On the subject of entertainment, there had been parties of
entertainment (IMONDAN), but they did not proceed further forward than RANGOON.
There were Korean and Japanese prostitutes in
AKYAB, and some had been brought up to HPARABYIN and even ALXTHANGYAW, but they
had been strictly reserved for officers, a fact that had greatly angered the
troops.”
(Source available on request)
(3) Prisoner of War IMA??RA, Masayuki, Corporal, member of 55 Mountain Regiment, captured KWAON Ridge, 7 February 1944, stated:
“Usually visited the brothel on Sundays which was his day off. Officers could visit brothels any time
in the week, but usually there were separate institutions for them, and in
these he believed there occasionally were Japanese
girls. The staff of the soldiers brothel was normally of Korean woman.
“No food or drink was served in the regulated brothels and each man
received a preventative when he brought his ticket
which cost 2 yen per hour. In addition troop headquarters issued
preventatives on application
“The women were medically examined once weekly but men could also obtain
ointment (similar to that in American R.T. tubes) on application to troop
headquarters.”
(Source available on request)
b. SUMATRA
Prisoner of War ISHIGURO, Kiyoichi (JA 145044), First Class
Private, member of 228 Infantry Regiment, captured near PAPAKI Bridge, 11
November 1942, stated;
“There was an official Army Brothel in BELAWAW in which two native women
from NARUMONDA and six Chinese women served. Great precautions were take aganist venereal disease.
(ATIS Interrogation Report, Serial No 42,
page 10)
(end page 8)
c. South West Pacific Area
(1) Prisoner of War MIYAJI, Chikara (JA 145045), First Class Private,
member of 144 Infantry Regiment, captured GIRUWA, 29 Novmember 1942, stated:
“There were two brothels to his knowledge in
RABAUL. They contained a total of
about 100 Korean and Japanese girls. “
(ATIS Interrogation Report, Serial No 35,
page 8).
(2) Prisoner of War KOJIMA, Masao (JA 100029), Sergeant, member of 50
Antiaircraft Regiment, captured T.OBRIARDS Island, 21 March 1943, stated:
“Although brothels were provided by the Army,
there was only one woman to about 2,000 troops, consequently only
officers were accommodated.”
(ATIS Interrogation Report, Serial No 175,
page 10).
(3) Prisoner of War AOKI, yoshio (JA 145427), Superior Private, member
of 50 Independent Antiaircraft Battalion, captured off NEW GUINEA coast, 6
March 1943 stated:
“There were approximately 20 brothels in RABAUL, 5 in KOKOPO Area and
the remainder in town. Inmates were all Japanese women. The brothels were main-ly patronized by
the officers; men could rarely gain admittance. Prices were officers 5 yen and
men 1 yen.”
(ATIS Interrogation Report, Serial no 99,
page 15).
(4) Prisoner of War KASAHARA, Hiroshi (JA 145153), Sergeant, member of
41 Regiment, captured KUMUSI River, 7 January 1943, stated:
“There were brothels in MANILA and DAVAO, containing Korean women.
Although these establishments were authorized by the Army, prisoner of war
though that profit went to the proprietors.”
(ATIS Interrogation Report, Serial No 78,
page 7)
(5) Extract from handwritten diary, dated 8 December 1941 – 6 January
1943, belonging to MIYOSHI, 7 Company, 124 Infantry Regiment:
“9 June 1942. We landed. The office of Yurukawa Colonization Company is
very large, and there are many warehouses. For the first time since leaving southern CHINA, we saw Japanese girls clad in kimono and holding a
parasol. Can there be more pleasure and amusement for us than this? These girls, as
Army prostitutes, had landed here one step ahead of us. We entered the town of DALIAO. The town was countrified. There were
many Japanese who welcomed us. It was like a greeting in JAPAN when one returns
to a country town. Each platoon quartered in a different house and I stayed on
the second floor of Osaka Bazaar.
There were electric lights and running water. Next door was a bicycle
shop. I spent the night in peace.”
(ATIS Bulletin No 1483, page 20)
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